Employment Law for Human Resource Practice - Softcover

Walsh, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0357717546 ISBN 13: 9780357717547

Publisher: South-Western College/West, 2023

Synopsis

Packed with cutting-edge cases and hands-on applications, Walsh's “Employment Law for Human Resource Practice”, 7e explains major issues and rules of employment law behind each step of the employment process in understandable terms. You will learn how law impacts your career, as a manager or employee by exploring current news, typical situations and real cases that illustrates how legal concepts apply to each stage of employment -- from hiring and managing to firing. Each chapter begins with new learning objectives and ends with a summary of practical advice for today's managers to help you develop students develop legal reasoning skills and the skills needed to frame issues with hand-on application. This latest edition includes timely updates that addresses the latest employment law legislation, regulations and case law. New and expanded topics examine discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, employment status of "gig workers," the ABC test of employment status, student-athletes and graduate students, COVID-19, no-poaching and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), social media in recruitment, arbitration agreements, accommodating pregnant employees, pay equity, retaliation, DACA, artificial intelligence (AI), and unions.

About this title

About the Author

David Walsh received his Ph.D. from the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1991. He served on the faculty of the management department at Miami University from 1991-2020. His teaching and research focused in areas of employment law, labor relations and human resource management. In addition to this text, Dr. Walsh has written an airline labor relations book ON DIFFERENT PLANES (Cornell University ILR Press, 1994) and has contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes, including THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STRIKES IN AMERICAN HISTORY (M.E. Sharpe, 2009). Dr. Walsh has also published articles in such journals as the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, American Business Law Journal, Law & Society Review and the Industrial & Labor Relations Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western College/West
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0357717546
• ISBN 13: 9780357717547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800